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Posted by ironcorona on 05/15/06 22:37
Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> The HTML spec seems to me to face both ways (might go so far
> as to say it contradicts itself...)
>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#visual
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>> "The height and width attributes give user agents an idea of the
>> size of an image or object so that they may reserve space for it and
>> continue rendering the document while waiting for the image data."
>
> Indeed. But that's only after it said:
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> | When specified, the width and height attributes tell user agents to
> | override the natural image or object size in favor of these values.
>
> which seems to me to carry a quite different message. Anyway, it's a
> specification, not a recommendation :-}
Maybe it's both. To resize the image *and* to reserve space for the now
resized image or object so that the user agent can continue to seek out
new life and new civilisation blah blah blah.
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Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)
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